quarterlife

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Season 1
Season #: 2, 1
Metascore
53

Mixed or average reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 19
  3. Negative: 5 out of 19
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Critic Reviews

  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mary McNamara
    60
    Zwick and Herskovitz do capture the sweet self-absorption of youth--love is never truer, dreams never dearer and life never as complicated as it is when you are 24--it's just that it all feels so familiar when we were so hoping for something new and exciting.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    60
    It focuses on twentysomethings and employs the tired device of a character speaking to the camera, producing a video blog about herself and her equally self-obsessed friends.
  3. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    50
    As frustrating as it is fascinating, watching the quarterlife characters is like gazing at animals in a zoo.
  5. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    50
    This may be a show about young adults, but there are older adults in charge. And we've come to expect better from them.
  6. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Robert Abele
    50
    I don't feel negative necessarily about the flaws of quarterlife, but then I don't feel much at all about quarterlife either.
  7. Newark Star-Ledger
    Reviewed by: Alan Sepinwall
    40
    Any show that's willing to go to such a silly place, to have its main character utter a line of dialogue that's like a parody of a parody of stuff these guys were writing two decades ago on "thirtysomething," is not a show I have time for, even if other shows won't be back until April.
  8. PopMatters
    Reviewed by: Marisa LaScala
    40
    It’s as if quarterlife comes with a prefab drinking game: take one shot when the waterworks start, another if the word “scared” follows.

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#76 Best TV Season of 2008
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#84 Most Discussed TV Season of 2008

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User Score
4.5

Mixed or average reviews- based on 8 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 8
  3. Negative: 3 out of 8
  1. UmNo
    Apr 24, 2008
    0
    Truly awful, unwatchable garbage. A bunch of whiny, amoral twentysomethings endlessly complaining about their uninteresting, selfish lives. Truly awful, unwatchable garbage. A bunch of whiny, amoral twentysomethings endlessly complaining about their uninteresting, selfish lives. Good riddance to this this "show".… Full Review »
  2. JoshP
    Feb 28, 2008
    7
    Well its lovely to see that the pervasive disease that is cynicism is well and alive(Burt H). Ripping on art people generically is about the Well its lovely to see that the pervasive disease that is cynicism is well and alive(Burt H). Ripping on art people generically is about the easiest thing to do. Yet you wouldn't have any shred of aesthetic perception and an ability for preferences that drives your fantasies without artists, writers, film makers and tv. The whole reason your favorite book, show, music, etc exists is because it was built on exploring that what dwells beneath. Many people just live a surface level existence and i think you prove that quite well or disguise it with your bitterness I could agree that who wants to see mopy, twenty-somethings trying to find themselves. I mean its like looking in the mirror. And sure it shares commonalities with Thirty-something and My So Called Life, but why is it that poignant and self reflecting shows are such a turnoff to modern audiences? We think we want to be wowed by special effects, but as is the case with most good universal praise why Batman Begins is much better than Fantastic Four(either) is that because the story line is character driven. So while this writers strike went on they filled the air with more reality shows and everyone got bored. The more exciting shows like Heroes and Lost have their flaws as well. Nobody can believably sympathize with characters from Lost. It's brilliant serial fantasy, but the characters lack the vulnerability that those on Quarterlife showed. Two different worlds i suppose, but even Heroes with its X-Men like plot is still a tidge bit too wooden for believability. I'm the sap that loves Michel Gondry and longs for a day when more movies are made with heart rather than worried about staying on budget.… Full Review »
  3. BrandonU.
    Feb 27, 2008
    7
    Not the greatest, but in a world where people actually watch American Idol and Two and a Half Men, the overblown claims of its all-time Not the greatest, but in a world where people actually watch American Idol and Two and a Half Men, the overblown claims of its all-time awfulness are getting quite old.… Full Review »
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